Archive for 'Games Journalism and the Virtual Press'
A Herald Fashionista’s Advice for New Media Journalists
by Tenshi Vielle – Fabuous Fashionista If you're a Herald reporter – or just wish you were – it is very important to carry a sense of theHerald's special style about you, in your attitude, your writing, and in the clothes you wear. As any of the Herald reporters can tell you, choosing clothing frommost [...]
Full StoryThe Escapist Discovers The Griefing
…and the results are underwhelming. Another fine post by Uri.
Full StoryEx-Second Life Newspaper SLNN Now Covering Golden Grrrls?
Metaverse loses another news source as SLNN changes ownership and direction by Tenshi Vielle SLNN's coverage of the Second Life world has gone missing and is now feared dead. For nearly two weeks, the formerly Second Life-oriented news service's web site has been unresponsive. Readers attempting to access current or past articles are greeted with [...]
Full StoryWrite About the Herald, Get a Pulitzer Prize
by Urizenus Sklar, reporting from the Zac Efron party tent at the Pulitzer awards. The Herald is pleased to report that Jim Schaefer and some of his colleagues at the Detroit Free Press have received a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Kwame Kilpatrick affair. What we media insiders know is that while Schaefer [...]
Full StoryIt’s 4/20 — Do You Know Where Your Medical Marijuana Is?
Part time griefer and journalist advocates for medical marijuana By Doctor Ocularis, Herald Medical Desk photo stolen from Metro Spirit Today being April 20 (aka 4/20) it is only fitting that we link to a story about weed. In this case we link to a story by Joshua McCracken in the Augusta Georgia Metro Spirit. [...]
Full StorySHOCK! Sky News Closes Second Life News Bureau!!!
by Sigmund Leominster The Prophets of Doom can wallow in the demise of yet another major newscorporation's exit from the Second Life virtual world. Britain's Sky News has announcedthat it is formally closing down its SL island and moving to a "new'Immersive Workspaces' platform in Second Life where employees meet toexchange ideas and do business." [...]
Full StoryVirtual Journalism Heavyweights Gather in Virtual Journalism Summit
Helen Thomas, Virtual World Reporter by Field Marshal McLuhan, at the new media desk As I type this, a group of virtual journalism heavyweights gather at a Virtual Journalism Summit, presumably atop Mount Journalism, in Washington State. Among the heavyweights attending the summit are 89 year old White House Correspondent Hellen Thomas, virtual world sleuth [...]
Full StorySecond Life Fanboys Protest Times Haterade
Stop saying bad things about my game or I'll call you names and pout by Pixeleen Mistral, New Media desk The high pitched squeal you hear is the sound of Second Life fanboys writhing in pain as David Rowan at the Times of London dumps a big bucket of icy haterade all over Second Life, [...]
Full StoryWill the Confusion Never End?
SL Fanboiz confooz cashing out with earnings! by Urizenus Sklar, just off the the phone with Tim Geithner, and TARP money or not, Herald staffers are not giving up their phat bonuses! In a recent post on New World Notes, Hamlet Au attempts to recharge the Second Life hype cycle by headlining the news that [...]
Full StoryOh Noooooooes! News delivery in video games.
Kathleen Parker illustrates why traditional media is Fail. by Urizenus Sklar, at the This is So Stupid I Had to Come out of Retirement Desk In today’s Washington Post there is a monumentally inept essay by Kathleen Parker that both bemoans the death of the print newspaper and aptly illustrates precisely why it is dying, [...]
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